13-11-2011, 08:11 PM
Keith Millea Wrote:Albert,
I don't watch television programing,so I can't really comment on this show.But,let me shoot down this quote:
Quote: Soldiers tell of fighting for America and then being spit on when they returned.
I first came to the conclusion that this story was not valid a few years ago.I had heard it repeated SO MANY TIMES over the years by my fellow Veterans that it just started to ring false.The documentary,"Sir! No Sir!",about the GI resistance movement,also came to the same conclusion after researching these claims.This story is a myth,or maybe a Psyop,that keeps being perpetuated for whatever reason.It certainly has had the effect of keeping longstanding animosity between Vietnam Vets,and the anti-war protesters.Maybe that was the point of it afterall.
Keith - thank you.
Both your research into this "myth", and your interpretation of its possible underlying purpose, ring very true.
"It means this War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, all just to keep the people distracted...."
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war